Ruth D. Gates

15.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
127 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Ruth D. Gates is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth D. Gates has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Ecology, 85 papers in Oceanography and 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ruth D. Gates's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (119 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (74 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (30 papers). Ruth D. Gates is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (119 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (74 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (30 papers). Ruth D. Gates collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ruth D. Gates's co-authors include Hollie M. Putnam, Michael Stat, Xavier Pochon, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Tracy D. Ainsworth, Peter J. Edmunds, James K. Oliver, Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, Michael P. Lesser and Alejandra Hernández‐Agreda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ruth D. Gates

126 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

2015 644 citations Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, James K. Oliver et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts

2015 416 citations Tracy D. Ainsworth, Lutz Krause et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Ocean Solutions to Address Climate Change and Its Effects on Marine Ecosystems

2018 260 citations Ruth D. Gates et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruth D. Gates United States	48	7.0k	5.0k	2.5k	921	805	127	8.1k
Maoz Fine Israel	46	5.8k 0.8×	4.9k 1.0×	2.8k 1.1×	693 0.8×	845 1.0×	130	7.4k
Mark E. Warner United States	46	7.0k 1.0×	6.5k 1.3×	2.3k 0.9×	649 0.7×	378 0.5×	104	8.4k
Sven Uthicke Australia	52	6.4k 0.9×	6.0k 1.2×	3.2k 1.3×	609 0.7×	373 0.5×	180	9.4k
Todd C. LaJeunesse United States	52	10.4k 1.5×	8.0k 1.6×	2.3k 0.9×	961 1.0×	489 0.6×	108	11.1k
Ernesto Weil Puerto Rico	39	4.9k 0.7×	2.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	812 0.9×	1.4k 1.7×	98	5.7k
William K. Fitt United States	43	6.3k 0.9×	4.9k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	722 0.8×	347 0.4×	81	7.3k
Line K. Bay Australia	40	4.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	475 0.5×	392 0.5×	105	4.7k
Jennifer E. Smith United States	49	6.3k 0.9×	5.2k 1.0×	3.6k 1.4×	412 0.4×	353 0.4×	109	8.9k
William Leggat Australia	35	4.1k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	724 0.8×	656 0.8×	87	5.1k
Baruch Rinkevich Israel	57	5.8k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	5.5k 2.2×	856 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	327	10.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Padilla‐Gamiño, Jacqueline L., et al.. (2024). Mesophotic corals in Hawai‘i maintain autotrophy to survive low-light conditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2017). 20231534–20231534. 2 indexed citations

Núñez‐Pons, Laura, Ross Cunning, Craig E. Nelson, et al.. (2023). Hawaiian coral holobionts reveal algal and prokaryotic host specificity, intraspecific variability in bleaching resistance, and common interspecific microbial consortia modulating thermal stress responses. The Science of The Total Environment. 889. 164040–164040. 7 indexed citations

Caruso, Carlo, et al.. (2022). Community composition of coral-associated Symbiodiniaceae differs across fine-scale environmental gradients in Kāne‘ohe Bay. Royal Society Open Science. 9(9). 212042–212042. 25 indexed citations

Baker, Andrew C., et al.. (2022). Stable symbiont communities persist in parents, gametes, and larvae of Montipora capitata across historical bleaching phenotypes. Coral Reefs. 41(6). 1627–1636. 3 indexed citations

Baker, Andrew C., et al.. (2022). Stable symbiont communities persist in parents, gametes, and larvae of Montipora capitata across historical bleaching phenotypes. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Elahi, Robin, Peter J. Edmunds, Ruth D. Gates, et al.. (2022). Scale dependence of coral reef oases and their environmental correlates. Ecological Applications. 32(7). e2651–e2651. 13 indexed citations

Caruso, Carlo, Lupita Ruiz‐Jones, Joshua R. Hancock, et al.. (2022). Genetic patterns in Montipora capitata across an environmental mosaic in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i. Molecular Ecology. 31(20). 5201–5213. 18 indexed citations

Drury, Crawford, Joshua R. Hancock, Christian Martin, et al.. (2022). Intrapopulation adaptive variance supports thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral. Communications Biology. 5(1). 486–486. 26 indexed citations

Barott, Katie L., Ariana S. Huffmyer, Jennifer Davidson, et al.. (2021). Coral bleaching response is unaltered following acclimatization to reefs with distinct environmental conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(22). 48 indexed citations

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Huffmyer, Ariana S., et al.. (2021). Tissue fusion and enhanced genotypic diversity support the survival of Pocillopora acuta coral recruits under thermal stress. Coral Reefs. 40(2). 447–458. 16 indexed citations

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Majerová, Eva, et al.. (2021). Preconditioning improves bleaching tolerance in the reef‐building coral Pocillopora acuta through modulations in the programmed cell death pathways. Molecular Ecology. 30(14). 3560–3574. 25 indexed citations

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Claar, Danielle C., Jamie M. McDevitt‐Irwin, Melissa Garren, et al.. (2020). Increased diversity and concordant shifts in community structure of coral‐associated Symbiodiniaceae and bacteria subjected to chronic human disturbance. Molecular Ecology. 29(13). 2477–2491. 29 indexed citations

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Guest, James R., Peter J. Edmunds, Ruth D. Gates, et al.. (2018). A framework for identifying and characterising coral reef “oases” against a backdrop of degradation. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(6). 2865–2875. 58 indexed citations

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Caldwell, Jamie M., Blake Ushijima, Courtney S. Couch, & Ruth D. Gates. (2017). Intra-colony disease progression induces fragmentation of coral fluorescent pigments. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14596–14596. 9 indexed citations

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Qiu, Huan, Ehud Zelzion, Hollie M. Putnam, et al.. (2017). Discovery of SCORs: Anciently derived, highly conserved gene-associated repeats in stony corals. Genomics. 109(5-6). 383–390. 3 indexed citations

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Putnam, Hollie M., Jennifer M. Davidson, & Ruth D. Gates. (2016). Ocean acidification influences host DNA methylation and phenotypic plasticity in environmentally susceptible corals. Evolutionary Applications. 9(9). 1165–1178. 156 indexed citations

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Mass, Tali, Hollie M. Putnam, Jeana L. Drake, et al.. (2016). Temporal and spatial expression patterns of biomineralization proteins during early development in the stony coral Pocillopora damicornis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1829). 20160322–20160322. 47 indexed citations

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Ainsworth, Tracy D., Lutz Krause, Tom C. L. Bridge, et al.. (2015). The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts. The ISME Journal. 9(10). 2261–2274. 416 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oppen, Madeleine J. H. van, James K. Oliver, Hollie M. Putnam, & Ruth D. Gates. (2015). Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(8). 2307–2313. 644 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yancey, Paul H., et al.. (2009). Betaines and Dimethylsulfoniopropionate as Major Osmolytes in Cnidaria with Endosymbiotic Dinoflagellates. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 83(1). 167–173. 37 indexed citations

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